
Elven Raft-Steerer
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Three-mana 3/2 that taps a blocker or untaps your creature every time a land enters — the premier common-tier Landfall engine. With extra land drops it controls combat every single turn.
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Gameplay notes
Hold a land in hand so you can trigger it exactly when combat math matters. Tapping a blocker pre-combat or untapping a surprise blocker are both real modes.
Key synergies
Wood Elves puts a Forest directly onto the battlefield — an extra Landfall trigger stapled to a body.
Gone Fishing can blink two lands at instant speed, generating two Raft-Steerer triggers during combat to tap multiple blockers or untap attackers, while also returning those lands untapped.
Equipping the Raft-Steerer makes every landfall ability trigger an additional time, letting each land tap or untap two creatures or provide two separately chosen effects.
A landfall trigger can untap Woodland Weavemaster after it produces mana, allowing a second activation in the same turn. Elven Raft-Steerer also triggers the Weavemaster's Elf ability when it enters, temporarily increasing how much mana that activation produces.
Sacrificing Troop of Ponies puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield for an immediate Landfall trigger and puts another into your hand to guarantee a follow-up trigger.
Elven Raft-Steerer itself satisfies the Company's requirement to control another Elf, unlocking an additional land play each turn. Every land then both triggers the Raft-Steerer's combat control and distributes two +1/+1 counters with vigilance.
Silvan Rally supplies up to two lands for future Landfall triggers, while Thranduil turns those land drops into Elf tokens as the Raft-Steerer taps blockers to clear attacks for the growing army.
The banked Plains from chapters II and III guarantee a land drop — and a Landfall tap/untap trigger — on each of the next two turns, exactly when you want to keep attacks flowing into chapter IV.
Putting several lands into play at once fires the Raft-Steerer for each one — a one-card combat blowout.
The Saga finds a land and later makes your land drops produce Elves — every land is doing double duty with the Raft-Steerer out.
The Reveler's land-into-play loot is an extra Raft-Steerer trigger, and its recursion keeps bodies flowing for the tempo plan.
Each land both grows one of your creatures and lets the Raft-Steerer tap a blocker, converting land drops into larger, harder-to-block attacks.
Each land drop creates a Bear while also letting Elven Raft-Steerer tap an opposing blocker, immediately helping the growing token army attack through resistance.
Till and Tend creates an extra Landfall trigger, allowing the Raft-Steerer to tap another blocker for a tempo attack or untap a creature for defense.
The Raft-Steerer can be beheld to make the fetched land immediately usable, and the two Landfall triggers can tap two blockers, untap two creatures, or split the modes for a large tempo swing.
Each land gives Boughside Wanderers +2/+2 while the Raft-Steerer removes a blocker, pairing a large temporary threat with the tempo needed to push it through.
Playing Hobbit Hole triggers Landfall once, and sacrificing it to fetch a basic puts another land onto the battlefield for a second trigger, enabling two tap or untap effects from one land slot.
A land drop can make the Meditator a 4/2 while the Raft-Steerer taps its intended blocker, converting their shared Landfall trigger into an effective tempo attack.
Each chapter can blink one of your lands to generate another landfall trigger; although the land returns at end step, the untap mode can ready an attacker to block on the opponent's turn.
Thrór's Map searches up a basic land to secure a future landfall trigger, while its loot ability can help turn excess cards into additional land drops later.
Landfall enlarges Attercop while simultaneously letting the Raft-Steerer tap a blocker, making it easier for the temporarily pumped deathtouch attacker to connect or force an unfavorable block.
Mirkwood Nurturer can return a land you control to your hand, allowing it to be replayed for another Raft-Steerer Landfall trigger while the Nurturer receives its +1/+1 counter.





















